A Clay County sheriff’s deputy who lost a hand to an ax-wielding man Friday night had a pulse in all five fingers following surgery to reattach the hand, a sheriff’s department spokesman said this evening.

"That was very good news," Clay County Sheriff’s Capt. Steve Cotney. "Today they went back in and did some more surgery and afterwards he could actually move some of his fingers."

Deputies were trying to serve an arrest warrant on a man on Sawmill Road — off Alabama 79 near the intersection with Alabama 149 — when the incident took place between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday, Cotney said.During the attempt to arrest the man, the man picked up a bush ax used for chopping down bushes and limbs and started swinging it, he said.

The names of the injured deputy and the man who was shot and killed are not bein